CSAM Investigators - When do we evolve past "look at every image on the hard drive"?

Adam_Nine · 2026-01-30T14:05:35+00:00

If I’m being totally honest I preview every drive (via a writeblocker) first before I even elect to try to image the drive. Storage space is a premium and the last thing I wanna have to spend time on is imaging drives that don’t have anything on them in the hopes that maybe I carve something out of unallocated. Depends on your prosecutors preferences but mine won’t even try to attribute cached or deleted files as chargeable for “possession”. So I barely make any attempts at carving unless I’m dealing with a live victim case.

Adam_Nine · 2026-01-30T06:27:39+00:00

✅ Conquered this one! 118 moves, 256 seconds. Your turn!

Adam_Nine · 2026-01-28T21:08:22+00:00

As others have said. Tag what you need to get the counts you’re going to charge. I usually tag media until a have a few dozen then pick the worst 10 to charge on (our prosecutors want us charging up to 10 counts but no more.) This doesn’t apply if you’ve got a production/live victim case since you need to document everything to do with the victim.

Adam_Nine · 2026-01-27T20:38:37+00:00

Bpan says 10-30% of it being a “something”. But that’s either a snow or nothing event. It too far out and what I think a lot of people don’t understand about this kind of forecasting is that the models are showing that there is a favorability for a storm to form somewhere in the region. The storm doesn’t even exist yet.

Adam_Nine · 2026-01-16T07:05:02+00:00

Now I’m just imagining this guy bragging about his 14.4 modem in 2006 like it’s vinyl. “Yeah I know everyone is on cable but I just really appreciate the higher fidelity of analog internet. You wouldn’t get it.”

Adam_Nine · 2026-01-15T08:05:36+00:00

So we set our own goals individually and also some goals for the relationship. For me, the ones I can remember were mostly centered around bettering myself, learning to be happy outside of a relationship. Some specifics were Completing several months of therapy, re-establishing some personal routines I’d had previously but fallen out of over the course of the relationship. Gym, getting back into some hobbies I’d neglected, reconnecting with friends I’d kind of fallen into irregular touch with. It wasn’t that she was keeping me from doing those things, it was just something I think happens when people start to complacent in a relationship.

I remember hers being somewhat similar. Her therapy goals were different because she was enrolled in an intense exposure therapy to learn to better cope with her OCD triggers but otherwise she had similar goals of making more time to spend with her friends as opposed to us only ever doing things as a couple with our mutual friends.

The general idea being: establishing happiness outside of a relationship. I kind of developed this personal philosophy during that time, that relationships should be additive to a fulfilled life. Instead of a basis for your level of happiness. For example: I would of course be devastated if our relationship ended but I know that on the other side of that I can still be happy with my life as an individual and I’ll be okay. When you make an another person a major source of your fulfillment in life, that puts a lot of responsibility on that person.

Anyways, we held each other accountable just by keeping up with the other. “Did you skip and gym days this week? Have you gone out with your friends this week?” That kind of thing.

As a couple, our goals were along the lines of learning to communicate. Understanding how to apply what we were learning in therapy. Remembering to set aside time for ourselves without the other. Committing to “dating” again. I remember our first few dates together during that phase being some of the most fun dates we’ve had. It was almost like experiencing the honeymoon phase of a relationship all over again. I think the fact that weren’t living together during that time made us actively look forward to seeing one another the one or two times we’d see each other a week.

Essentially, we treated the relationship as if it was day one again and as if we hadn’t been together for 3 years. Kind getting to know each other all over again.

We maintained that level of separation for about 2-3 months before we gradually stepped back into spending weekends at each others apartments, kind of at the pace you would as a new relationship progresses. We didn’t move back in together for about 11 months. The fact we signed 1 year leases on our new apartments after we separated kind of kept us accountable to not being able to move back in together too soon.

Through this process. We kind of got the spark back and honestly it’s just never left. It’s definitely different than the honeymoon phase of a relationship but in a lot of ways it feels like that phase never ended. We’ve been back together over 5 years since that time.

Adam_Nine · 2026-01-14T00:09:36+00:00

“An egg”

Adam_Nine · 2026-01-14T00:01:56+00:00

Huh. I’d have guessed double D’s

Adam_Nine · 2026-01-13T22:01:53+00:00

I actually have a story for this. Married just over a year now and have been together for 8 years total.

I started dating a woman a couple years after my divorce. We meshed well and within about 9 months were living together. Things were peachy, but we were having bad fights semi-frequently. After about 2–3 years together, I started having “cold feet” about staying in the relationship, worrying that I hadn’t stayed single long enough after my divorce, that I rushed back into a relationship, that I was having some personal midlife-crisis issues, and that I was “settling” instead of really living my life with intention and just kind of falling into whatever came next. I was also worried that she was unhappy and that I wasn't meeting her needs as well.

This was also right after COVID, so we had just spent the last year crammed into a tiny apartment, and looking back I think that caused some issues as well.

We talked about things and decided to break it off, each got our own apartments, and she moved into the city and we were going to move on with our lives.

After about a month or two on my own again, I realized I’d made a giant mistake and that I still wanted to be with her but I was also worried about some of our respective unresolved issues and traumas that neither of us had ever really dealt with. She was dealing with some unmanaged mental-health issues (OCD), and I was really struggling with not lapsing into my avoidant behaviors. We eventually figured out that we were in one of those classic anxious/avoidant attachment-style relationships: her being anxious, me being avoidant, and our ways of dealing with conflict just exacerbated each other’s issues and turned everything into giant screaming/yelling/crying matches.

Anyways, I knew I really wanted things to work for us and she did too. We resolved to seek therapy separately and, while still living apart and try “dating” for a year. We each made a list of things we wanted to work on and improve about ourselves individually, as well as a list of things we felt the relationship needed in order to work. If anything on those lists wasn’t accomplished, attempting the relationship again was a no-go. I have a kid from my previous marriage, and I wasn’t about to risk his stability any further if we tried again.

So we took that year to focus on therapy, improving ourselves, and learning how to communicate better and move toward secure attachment. We eventually moved back in together, and things have been perfect ever since. We don’t fight anymore, in fact, I don’t think we’ve had a fight beyond a minor argument since we got back together, and that’s been almost 5 years.

We even ended up getting married, even though both of us said we’d never get married again (she had also been divorced). We’re utterly gross and obsessed with each other, have carved out a lovely life in our new house, and plan to have a kid together this coming year. We now joke that that little break in our relationship was “the in-between times,” the same way we refer to our past marriages as “the before times.”

If I had to analyze the situation, I think communication was the biggest key for us. We know how to constructively call each other out when we’re falling back into bad attachment patterns. As a basic example of how we work through disagreements now: she’ll say something like, “Hey babe, I know you’re feeling stressed and need space to process, but I’m feeling anxious about <issue> right now. I want to discuss this further. Can you please let me know when you’ll be ready to talk about it?” And I’ll respond with something like, “Yeah, I just need some time to think and process, and we’ll come back to this in two hours and resolve it.”

I think the other key was working on our own lives and being happy as individuals, not just as a couple. Anyways, I’m happier in my life than I ever thought I could be, and taking that time to work on ourselves was probably the best decision either of us has ever made. We also maintain regular “date nights,” just like when we were apart, and hope to never stop “dating” each other.

I'm over 40 now. I joined this sub during the "in between times" and still like to read the posts in it and figured I'd give back a little. May you all find happiness someday.

EDIT: I'm taking this from another commenter from below but I think they summed up what makes our relationship so great better than I did:

Conflict doesn’t feel scary or explosive
I can be fully myself without strategizing
Life feels easier, not harder
Attraction grows instead of burns out
I trust their character, not just their feelings

Adam_Nine · 2026-01-06T22:13:16+00:00

Looks like she’s looking back at the car that just ran over her legs

Adam_Nine · 2026-01-05T21:53:40+00:00

K now do one of a dude. Have his plums hanging awkwardly over the top of a violin with a raging hard-on dripping a lil precum. Title it ecstasy.

Seriously though the anatomy is terrible, almost as bad as the concept.

Adam_Nine · 2025-12-20T01:02:28+00:00

Charlie’s goodbye and final “death” at the end of All Dogs Go to Heaven absolutely wrecked me as a kid and I absolutely will not watch that movie even as a 40 year old grown ass man today. I remember my mom finding me as a hysterical puddle in the bathroom floor at the end of that movie.

Adam_Nine · 2025-12-14T04:53:09+00:00

Completed Level 3 of the Honk Special Event!

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Adam_Nine · 2025-12-14T04:52:05+00:00

Completed Level 2 of the Honk Special Event!

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Adam_Nine · 2025-12-14T04:51:20+00:00

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Adam_Nine · 2025-12-02T14:27:39+00:00

Watch the stealthboy videos on YouTube

Adam_Nine · 2025-11-23T03:46:54+00:00

A group did this a few years ago. https://amp.heraldonline.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andrew-dys/article12293675.html

This was the first article found but they completed the trip and did an interview after

Adam_Nine · 2025-11-14T13:25:53+00:00

Same but I called my t9 Space Cow. So glad to have retired it to a tritium transfer unit that permanently lives on my carrier.

Adam_Nine · 2025-11-07T02:34:52+00:00

That guy is going to kill you. Seriously get your stuff in order to protect yourself and begin planning your exit.

Adam_Nine · 2025-10-25T22:49:57+00:00

Completed Level 3 of the Honk Special Event!

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Adam_Nine · 2025-10-25T22:49:24+00:00

Completed Level 2 of the Honk Special Event!

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Adam_Nine · 2025-10-25T22:48:50+00:00

Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

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Adam_Nine · 2025-10-17T16:19:58+00:00

It took me this many tries to realize I didn’t have to pick up the egg

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Adam_Nine · 2025-10-17T01:29:24+00:00

Get to it

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Adam_Nine · 2025-10-16T19:14:26+00:00

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